Mum claims being a sex worker makes her a BETTER parent: ‘Stripping is form of therapy’

Elle Stanger, 31, will often refer to herself as an “unlicensed underwear therapist”.

The stripper and sex writer from Oregon, US, ignores any judgemental parents at school gates and is extremely proud of her career.

In fact, she is convinced her raunchy job has made her a better mum to her five-year-old daughter.

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“I feel like being a sex worker makes me a better mum”

Elle Stanger

She said: “I feel like being a sex worker makes me a better mum because I’ve developed a greater sense of empathy. It means that I’m responsible to make a human being that is better for the world.

“She is going to be a lot more secure about the world around her. I’ve been telling my daughter since she was three that mummy dances, talks to people and tells jokes for money.

“I think people don’t trust that I could raise a child in a nurturing, safe, structured environment because they’re projecting their own fears on me.

“When I’m a mum, I’m a mum, when I’m in the adult world working, I’m doing my adult work - those two things do not overlap.”

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NO CARE: Elle Stanger claims being a sex worker made her a better parent

Elle currently works at the Lucky Devil Lounge, in Portland, and claims that stripping is a form of therapy for a lot of her customers.

She added: "I realised about six months into stripping that I was learning more about human beings than I’d ever learned in any psychology class. I know my work is healing to people because they tell me and I see it.

“A lot of people don’t have it in them to seek out therapy because they are ashamed to. I think it’s a lot easier for a blue collar guy to talk to a pretty girl in her underwear for 20 bucks a song.”

Confessions of a sex worker

While growing up, Elle wanted to become a police officer and complete a degree in criminology, but she “stopped believing in the criminal justice system when she learned more about the world.”

She turned to the sex industry because “she felt it was more of a compassionate method of interacting the world around her”.

As well as being a stripper, Elle is a writer and has her own website, Stripper Writer.

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“My website is just like a hub for where you can find me naked on the internet, where you can find me naked in person, where you can read my writing,” she explained.

"I make shirts, I make coffee mugs, I make shirts that say, 'I only f**k feminists’.”

The tattooed mum also co-organises Portland’s S*** Walk – a yearly march to raise awareness of sexual violence.

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Elle said: "I am really comfortable with calling myself a feminist because I appreciate and I respect everybody’s own sexuality. Everybody’s identity or intention.

"Slut Walk Portland has three organisers. I am one. We are all sex workers. The idea behind Slut Walk is that nobody deserves sexual assault.

"Every year I try to wear the last thing I wore when I was cat called or sexually harassed - and it is usually pants and boots and a jacket.”

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RAUNCHY: Elle has a five-year-old daughter

Elle has been with her partner Bryan for over two years after he became one of her regular customers.

Bryan said: “Elle’s a good mum because she will do absolutely anything for her child and the wellbeing of her daughter is 100% her priority, and that was honestly one other thing that really attracted me to her, when I found out she is a mother.

"I do think her work benefits society, I think she does a lot of good in this world, I think she does a lot of healing. I know I used to feel a lot better when I used to see her at work before we starting dating.”

Referring herself to a healer, Elle added: “I have raised a great kid. She is really smart and she is really happy.

"I see myself as a healer and a giver of touch and a motherly figure and not just motherly to my kids, but motherly to my clients because I want to care for them, I want them to feel happy and safe and they will treat me better when they are happier."